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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21
Petroleum Is q Fuel.

Wonder is expressed that though We
Ebave only just solved the question of the
~ OF crude petroleum as fuel for loco
Hotives, it has been in use by the Russians
ldnce 1884. But that fact is explained by
H. greater necessity in the case of the
Runian Trans Caspian railroads. They
I'D not the good and cheap coal of
H1nnsylvania, and their inventive genius
N0B driven to find q means of utilizing the
'1nA which it was ths chief work of
ohese railways to transport. The Russian
lslroleum Is far superior to the American,
son6 yet It is now used almost exclusively
~ the fuel Of steamboats, on the Caspian
|lnd the V0lga. Immense iron steamers
my this oil a. far as Sweden and Nor
~, where it is rapidly replacing coal as
zloeomotive fuel, and it is not only
isiving coal from most of the railways of
1nsaia, but 10 rapidly replacing it for fac.
my use. Still it must not be forgotten
hat the coal thus displaced is English coal
md that the process threatens the supre
ICY OF coal as a railway fuel in its Penn
!Gylvania home.
IN careful editorial on the question the
New York Times notes that oil residuum
,hos been used on ferry steamers at San
Fnncisco, with saving of 40 per cent
- that the saving on the Swedish rail-
'uays 10 reported at from 25 to 50 per cent
~ Bsku it is sold at ten cents q ton, and
leae-third Of the product has been wasted
annually. Finally attention is called to
- greater portability of the fuel. "If
1OOo tons Of Iesiduum will do the work of
400 or 2,5oO tons of coal, and at the
leans time occupy the space of only 600
on1 Of coal, as has been asserted, the ad.
svnnfages gained by burning it can easily
- eosu."
& This points to change in ocean steam.
- which will no longer require SO much
noe for coal, and to a radical alteration
those plans for our new navy, which
eepend largely upon the filled coal bunkers
= protection. Truly, it is hard to keep
- with invention nowadays.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21
PERSONAL

GLADSTONE says his age as we'll rs his
engagements preclude his sitting America.
FREDERICK X. LANE, OF Lancaster, is one
OF the Swarthmore college graduates Of this
year.
GEORGE +. BAER, of the Reading bar, Is
said TO enjoy the largest income Of any mem.
ber thereof
Hon. CHAUNcEY +. BLACK and wife are
summering at the old Dawson homestead,
" Friendship Hill, near New Geneva,
Fayette county.
JAY GOULD has generously added to the
Mount Vernon estate, where the remains OF
Washington are entombed, by tue purchase
Of 3S - acres Of land on the northern side of
the old Washington mansion.
REV. CHAs. STOWE, son Of Mrs. Harriet
Bsecher stowe. who filled the pulpit Of the
late Henry Ward Bsecher, Sunday, will
probably be appointed permanently pastor
| Of Plymouth church In New York.
SENATOR BROWN and Representatives
Blount, Crisp and Stewart, OF Georgia,
called on the president Monday and urged
l the appointment OF OK. Representative Ham,
! mond, Of that state, to the vacant ju-ticeship
| Of the supreme court Of the United States.
MAJOR JoHNM. PoMERoY, aged ,i5, for q
number Of years editor OF the Franklin Re
posttory, while walking To his residence in
Chambersburg. on Monday, suddenly sank
to his knees and fell over dead without Q
struggle. His death was due to heart failure.
He served three terms in the legislature, two
years as paymaster in the army, some time
as q merchant, and ten years as editor of the
Repository. In 1854 he disposed of the paper
to his two sons.
HERMAN STRECKER, the Reading scuIp-
tor, who got Pm. ID. from Franklin aud Mar
shall college, last week, Ia well known A. the
possessOr OF the greatest collection of butter
flies in the country. 1t includes ssvera. thou
sand specimens, and has attracted the atteu-
ton of entOmologists the world over. Even
the car OF Russia exchanged greetings and
specimens with him. he declined An Oiier
OF $l3, 900 for the collection, to which he has
devoted aquarter OF q century.
GEORGE +. KNAPP, 10 the American
Mdgd>tne, says that when male florist il
brought into close competition with y female
one the latter will, in nine cases out OF ten,
bear oil the palm. Among flowers shs is in
her element; her love for tue beautiful and
artistic will enable her to arrange the plants
and MOWERS In unique and attractive desig gus
which are entirely beyond the ingenuity OF
the average male florist; buyers of plants
and flowers are not slow to recognize the
superior results and to choose accordingly.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21
Cut Hts Throat win . Psnkniss.

David Stsmey, an eccentric and wealthy
farmer, residing IN Antrim township, Frank.
lin county, committed suicide at an early
hour Monday morning, by cutting his throat
with psnknite. He was about rs years OF
age ana member OF the River brethren
church. OF late years he had been In the
habit OF making prophecies as 10 the end Of
the world, and believed that the millennium
would come this year. He also prophesied
the tate, a. he believed Il of his nsia hbors.
and ON Sunday night solemnly informed b is
son that no (the SOM would be paralyzsd
that night he WAS harmless aud had been
considered childish.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21
] Weekly Intenlgsnoer
LANCAsrKR, JUNE u. 1851.
re Ouees.s Jubilee.

odhy = the fiftieth anniversary of the
vhon the eighteen -year-old daughter
it, Duchess OF Kent ascendei the Eng.
1hrone in the midst Of the acclaims Of
j ~ poople. It d not given to many SOY.
fgns 10 hold their places as long as has
n Victoria /; nor to many is it given
- oo0mand % wide q respect as has heen
DooEdel to her. 1t is true that she has
- surrounded by wise cOunsellors, but
- must be given the credit of . wisdom
.1e so1ection 10 these.
Whm she came to the throne there was
Iiniversal sympathy for the girlish queen
80 was thus thrust at once from mai.
10y retirement into the splendors and re.
|1uasfbtlities Of royalty. Her marriage
- Prince Albert, Of SAKE -Coburg, and
- model domestic life still further en-.
Saeed her TO her subjects, who felt graft
- that, unlike the stern Elizabeth, she
SVpD more Q woman than q queen.
Loyal Northerners will always remem.
R&uk That she refused to unite with Louis
l(apoloo0 In the recognition of the South.
SGn Rebellion in those days when men g
2n5a1B were sorely tried. The moral weight
N ~ support Of the " lost cause /" at that
- would have had momentous results
~ ~ distracted country.
Some of the greatest names in English
h1Geogy will be associated with Victoria s
]U1gn. Peel, Palmerston, Disraeli and
ga1Adstone were her ministers and yelling.
topu was the head of her army. During her
sooeupancy Of the throne the voting fran
49, has been largely inc reased, and many
1oeps have been taken towards more dem
ocsxtic government. In 1866 the total
/ yoeing population in England and Wales
Was I. .O5s $50; while the year following it
WAs increased to 2,Ol2,6Sl. In 1883 the
total voting population of England and
yalss, Scotland and ireland was a,l52 $40
80 Gladstone act in 1855 brought it up t.
B,7O7 ,53l. Thus it is apparent that tn
people are more potential in affairs of stat,
!. than ever before.
The one thorn in the semi-centennia
rose Of to-day is the unhappy condition O
\ 1gplaud. How far the queen could
1 ameliorste the wretched condition of tha,
1 ~, II she would, it is not easy to say
< Bat 70 long as Ireland retains its present
Harm OF misgOvernment, it will be farce
- ny that there is such q nation as the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
j Ireland.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21

The Robert +. Lee Camp OF Conisde, s.e
Veterans, who took part In the Bunker Hill
celebration st Boston, broke ranks In that
city on Sunday. About twenty-five Of them
were In New York yesterday, and were en-.
tertained BY Steinwsy and Cameron posts Of
Of the Grand Army OF the Republic.
Major samuel Harper, department com.
manaer OF the Grand Army OF the Republic
@ ansy!vania, has issued an order request.
!og the posts throughout this department
70 cslebrate the coming Fourth OF July In
eno olo'osne manner, the ceremonies 70 In.
eiude The running up Of the stsrs ana stripes,
nnng Q! national sa.ute and tie reading OF
ne Declaration os Iadspsudsuca"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21
Fatal Prize-Fight Botw cen Women.

The monotOny OF the jubilee preparations
to which the newspapers are almost wholly
given up, IL relieved by the report OF prizs
tight bet ween two women, which took place
IN Abbey in England on Sunday. The con.
nan, and the battle appears to have been
fought with greater vigOr and determination
on the part OF the former than are exhibited
by the latter. day male exponsnts Of the istic
art That Mrs Christmss won the fight may
6e inferred from the fact that Ellen died in
the ring from the injuries inflicted by her
adversary, and her body was taken in charge
by the coroner, while the victor WAS put In
jAil.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21
! PsWderly On Educstiou,

Whatever the enemies OF Mr.. Powderly
~ ~, b has given utterance to some
1le sentiments that illustrate the fact
e h b . man OF superior character.
- 70 what he says on the subject of
wing The troubles caused by the vic.
easment In the Knights OF Labor
= rsmedy for all these troubles is
; diffusion Of learning, and it is the
q y iifs to go that every child in
- soeslves IN education. With the
ea edacaiaA o. the subjects that
eatlasa shouh b acquainted with.
aay sxpset better republIc. frss
= eanksss oe rsd-dasism."
- Gne uocas and they do credit
- uaescsd them. But M. Pow.
esn ~ SorDst also that : litsi.
= eaneseW thing; that moal
eouaafaon makes baA peoUls
= ~. Pevd~iy naans By s..
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21
-Four Persons Poisoned by Canned Salmon.

-Four persons in one family, three OF whom
are children, living at 2lO6 Hull street, Rich.
mond, Philadelphia, were poisoped yestsr-
day morning by canned salmon, and three
of them are at the point of death. Alfred
Stsuts, q blacksmith helper st ihs Second
and Third streets depot, lives with his wife,
i've children and his sister Ellen IN the Hull
street house, neat, three story dwelling. OF
this family, Ellen, the sister, - years old ;
Frank and James, and years respectively,
are the ones lying very sick, aud the doctors
say that they can not yet tell whether they
will recover. Neither Stauts, his wife nor
the baby, Alfred, 10 months old, paItOok OF
the salmon, and they escaped the death, per.
haps, that In the next few hours NAV ron
them Of their relatives.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21

THE peculiar question whether dealer 10
required to sell to oil persons willing to buy
hes come up in the supreme court OF
I.ouisiaus. 1t was In the suit Of Lynch versus
Fiberger. The court held that . merchant
IL under no obligation to sell goods to any
oua He cannot 10 assimilsted TO public ser
wants. common carriers, or to others In
similar position, who are bound 70 do certain
things and who may make themselves liable
In csses Of derelction Of duty and injury to
others
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21

Dn. McGLYSS mus appear In Rome On
July 2 o. b o. x.communicate<i. A. he can't
~ there BY that time now, his goose 10 Prac-
sIcally cooked.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21

1T is said TO be 80 hot In Pete rsburg, Va,
that iron rails OF . railroad were warped.
The summer liar is abroad early this year.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21

1r h only midi uue, and drowning scci.
dents ere already being reported from the
osaoide r0sortA
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21
RLlNN ( BRENEMAN,
No. l62 North Queen Street.

IUST RECEIVED A HANDSOME LINE
ma sss nss spSSs sns .ss
nlus serges. Clay Dtsg0nala Bannookblln.
sSiSx ios sumns. mae nss!Sess Gnsvios jIst tns
Tr1mmsd. Perfect A. 6uito nom - up a
kO6eGoyElM, THe TAlLOR
UNoyth Queen Street.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21

GooD health To you to-day, Queen Victoria,
on the tiftieth anniversary of your sssump-
tion Of the English throne. We will credit
you with all the good Of your al nistration,
and place the evil on other shoulders For
though you are queen and empress, you do
not rule except in your private household.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21
a SOD MtafOrtuno.

ls to raise a nice family of boys and girls
and then have them carried into an early grave
BY that terrible disease Cons umption. Heed
the warning and check II in Its first stages by
and Lungs, warranted to cure and relieve All
cases. Price sac. and d. For sale by ii. =
cochran. druggist No. lI North Queen street.
1yso] Vse ffee. (3l
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NOR COUNTY AUDITOR,
CHAs. W. PUsS

OF East Drumore township. Subject TO the de-
July ~. 1857. june6 tSd&W
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3rSC{AI EOSiGHe.


fOur-f1fthB.
VI our American people are afflicted with sick
headache in either its nervous, bilious or con.
Eesuve forms, caused by irregular habits, high
living etc, and no remedy has ever CONQUERED
II until Dr. Le-lts's Special Presc ription WAS dis.
another column. fA
sLEEPLEsS NIGHTS, made miserable by that
terrible cough. Shiloh's Cure IL the remedy for
you. sold by IL. Il. Cochran, druggist, Nos l37
ana lS North Queen ST.. Lancaster, Pa (2l
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21

The recent successful ascension Of q
balloon filled with natural gas makes one
wonder why there II so much trouble being
taken tc lay pipe lines ana invent tank cars
and boats for the transportation of this fuel.
Why not take advantage OF its buoysncy and
construct mammoth balloons As II would
not he advisable to have them rise far above
the ground, they might be made Of solid and
substantial material. II large enough, sheet
iron might even he used and the vast tanks
might be controlled by means Of steel wire
cables such as are used for suspension
bridge& The whole machine might thus be
dragged along by locomotives or guided
close above the tree tops and over the noun.
tains by sail or electric motor.
Here is room for the play Of genius AZ we'll
- fancy, and natural gas may bs the key to
aerial navigation. Tennyson saw in poetic
vision, I" The worlds celestial nsvies crap.
ping in the central blue" But with more
prosaic foresight We note with pleasure the
possibility Of q fleet Of mammoth iron
balloons bearing natural gas over the Allie
ghenies and furnishing cheap fuel on tap to
every farmer and every village and town a.
we'll ~ to the manufacturer. Who can tell
what swift and easy systems OF transporta-
ton might follow in the wake OF such a d In.
covery? The age of steel may be eclipssd
before 1t reaches its full by the age OF gas.
The iDlstion OF this idea IL no exhilarating
that the pen can no longer keep to the paper
but flies TO pieces in gigantic whoop!
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-21
NOR COUNTY AUDITOR,

Ot Paradise township. subject 10 the decision nj
1851. inn6tfn1ye
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-11-12
Winter.

60 the brook in winter sings no more?
I grant he's gone in and shut the door;
But. bless you'll he sings in much the same
way
He sting as he ran down the meadows Of
May,
The brook (his old name, remember, was
Elf
In Ginning, keeping his tunes to himself.
] know very well he's not sung out,
And If you insist on good, full proof,
Just chip a hole in his palace roof,
Put down your ear, ard make an end of
doubt.
So the flowers in winter bloom no more?
Roses are gone, but you surely must see
There are blossoms on blossoms, a thous-
and for four,
Thicker than leaves on the summer tree,
Purer Ina roses-ay, whittier than lilies,
And of fairer fields than the daffydown-
dillies.
Summer may put a flower oil each stem,
But these live blossoms, half bird-what OF
them?
Millions OF millions, everywhere,
Coming a-dancing out of the air.
So the skies of winter are unkind?
Watch sharp the stars, and / think you
will find
That, instead of looking ronnd the blue,
They glance straight down. and right al
you.
The sight of all sights for bright young
eyes
IL hung up there, In the winter skies,
And, mark you not how clear the air is?
That's the work of the witchingest fairies,
The same that make pictures on the pane,
And taper icicles out of the rain.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-11-12
~SagacIous Horses.

1t would be difficult to find a bettet
Illustration of the sagaclty OF the
horse than Is contained in the follow.
ing anecdote: A Mr.. Lane Of Glouces-
tershire, England, on returning home
one day, turned his horse into a feld
A few DAYS before this the horse had
been shod, and one foot had been
pinched in the shoeing.
The following morning Mr.. Lane
missed the horse. He caused a search
to be made, and from what was after
wards learned it Is supposed that the
animal, finding his foot uncomfortable,
made his way out of the field by lift
ing the gate off Its hinges with his
teeth.
He went to the blacksmith's shop
where he had been shod, a distance Of
a mile and a hail, and advancing 10
the forge, held up his ailing foot. The
blacksmith examined the hoot, and dis.
covering the injury, took of the shoe
and replaced it more carefully. The
horse then set off at a merry pace for
his well-known pasture.
Shortly afterwards those in search Of
the animal, passing the shop, men,
toned the supposed loss, when the
blacksmith laughingly replied: "Oh,
the horse has been here and GOT re-
shod, and has gone home again;" and
this they found to be actually the
case.
Similar intelligence was shown by
another horse, which, Of its own accord,
applied for relief to a farrier from whom
he had previously received medicine.
He had an internal disease which had
been very severe, but frem which, for
some considerable time, he had been
comparatively free.
One morning, when released from
the cart at breakfast time and his
drivers back was turned, he took the
opportunity to walk off to the fayrier's
workshop, which was at some little
distance. When the farrier appeared,
the horse lay down, and seemed anxioul
to show by every means in his power,
II he was in distress.
4he farrier understood him, con-
cluded that he vas troubled with his
Old complaint, and administered the
usual dose, and In a short time the an
imal trotted off contentedly to his mas
ter, who had been looking In all direc-
tions In quest Of him.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-11-12

1t Is much harder to explain the ma
ture Of the fetch, for the negro him.
self Is not clear on that subject. l
therefore fall back on my authorities,
Hubble Schlelden and Max Muller.
The former says that fetlchism is not a
proper designation for a religion, for
Judaism and christianity have their
fetiches al well as native religions; the
word should be used as analogous with
q word symbol or emblem, as Max
Muller has shown. If we should say
that the cross Is the fetch OF christ
lanity, some persons would think we
were guilty Of blasphemy, but they
would be only those who have no real
conception of what a fetch is. The
phrase is really As far from blasphemy
as science is from idle c~hattering. The
confusion Of the emblem with the
thought represented, OF the material
with the spiritual, of the visible with
Che invisible. is not religion, but su-
perstition, whether it be the worship Of
fetiches or of relics, ldolary, or the
alteration of saints. Max Muller saws:
I'VE may fancy ourselves secure
against the fetch worship of the Door
negro, but there are few il any among
us who have not their fetich or IDOL,
either in their church or their heart,
The negroes religion is nc belief In the
power of the Fetch, but belief in the
power Of spirit through which the fet-
ich Is of effect"
One important thought in particular
Is not peculiar to Fetch faith, but Is
mixed with the religions of most peo-
pie, but the negro suffers more than
any other man from the fear of ghosts.
tin tbs foaming water, In the dazzling
lightning, in the murmuring wind he
sees the working of self-existlng splr-
itual beings. And why should we de-
prive an anxious human heart of the
comforting faith that a piece of hide or
q dried snakehead, carefully wrapped
up and worn about the body a pro
tsst hint"
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-11-12


authorities,
owe OF Engel
the scafold
Of a guard.
ed two men
rye of CON-
men. with
Ter lock and
surveillance,
70 exact ma
II ready 10
II, lplated the
ecution of
Anarchists
\ chief spokes.
u, but brief
BE made by
Fake place in
at the Capt.
I 10 press Wv
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-11-12

voice husky. the sight indisdinct. Some
one whispers in the ear of the busy sur
geon: "The patient. I fear, Is dying"
Restoratives are administered, the
pulse gradually rises, and after a few
hours Of hard work and terrible anxiety
reactions occurs. The poor woman
was only faint from the joint influence
Of the a~n@sthetIc, shock and loss Of
blood. An assistant, a kind Of sentinel,
Is placed as q guard over her, with in
structions to watch her with the closest
care and to send word tile moment the
slightest change for the worse is per-
ceived.
The surgeon goes about his business,
visits other patients on the way, and at
length, long after the usual hour, he
sits down, worried and exhausted, to
his cold and comfortless meal, with a
mouth almost az dry and q voice as
husky az his PATIENTS. He eats me-
chemically, exchanges hardly a word
with any member of his family, and
sullenly retires to his study to pre-
scribe for his patiel. %ts-never, during
all this time, forgetting the poor mutt.
lated object he left a few hours ago.
He IS about to lie down to get q mo-
ment's repose after the sever toll Of
the day, when suddenly he hears a loud
ring Of the bell, and the servant, breath
less with excitement, begs his immedi-
ate presence at the sick chamber with
The excitement, s'They think Mrs -
is dying" He hurries to the scene
with rapid pace and anxious feeling.
The stump is Of q crimson color, and
the patient lies IN a profound swoon.
An artery has suddenly given away;
the exhaustion is extreme; cordials and
stimulants are at once brought into
requisition; TIE dressings are removed,
and the recusant vessel is promptly Sc
cured.
The vital current GIBBS and flows, re-
action is still more tardy than before,
and it is not until a late hour of the
night that the surgeon, literally worn
out in mind and body, retires to his
home n search Of repose. Does he
sleepp He tries, but he cannot close
his eyes. His mind is with his patient;
he hears every footstep upon the pave
ment under his window, and is in mo.
mentary expectation of the ringing of
the night bell. He is disturbed by the
widest species. he sees the most ter
rife objects, and as he rises early in the
morning to hasten to his patients
chamber, he feels that he has been
cheated of the rest OF which he stood
so much in need. Is this picture over
drawnr l have sat for it a thousand
times. and there is not an educated,
conscientious surgeon that will not Gel.
tify to its accuracy.